ohhh, they're chickens! I thought they were strange fortune cookies. I think that's because I Didn't read the title of the submission. Maybe a bit more definition ? or maybe even popcorn chicken on the box ?

Heh, i hadn't thought about it that way, Weibkreid. That is a bit disturbing...

I'll try to clear up the smaller chicks. I figured out what happened: The chickens in the first one were not vectors for some reason (they got the rasterized when i merged layers or something). So i shrunk the design down for the 3 shirt options on the right. When i made it large again for the main shirt on the left, they blurred...OOOPS

Hey. The second design is already pretty good. I'd try it on a bit brighter t-shirt (say, yellow?) to contrast with the red and white stripes and the overall "pop" feeling of the design. And I'd make the box a bit wider, now it is quite a slim image. But looks promising!

I like this second design much better. If you decide to go back to smaller chickens, which I think would be fine, make sure that they are easily deciperable as chickens. I think you know that, and I think that that was what was kicking your v1 design.

Anyway, in the new version, i made the chickens smaller like in the first version, but kept the feathery details of the second. I made sure fewer chickens were upside down, so they'd appear to be more like chickens and less like blobs.

The black outlines on the box seem to have disappeared. This is because i rasterized the design before copying it over to the tee-template (if i bring it over as a vector, shrinking the design makes the outlines appear to inflate and get huge...and it's a pain to change the width on every.single.chicken.)

I haven't altered the box dimensions, though, despite some people's suggestions. When i try to do so, it just looks to warped and weird looking, this type of popcorn box is known to be tall and skinny.

Let me know what you guys think of the changes and where i have still gone wrong! :)

Very nice! It's ALMOST ready to submit in my opinion, I think the size of the chickens in the last one are perfect. However, it felt different to me and I noticed why- the chickens are more bunched up more flat.. Get that more pile-looking dome of chickens like in the first two versions going on this one, and you're ready to submit!

I think that your design is better than the one Veranda linked you to, but I will say that it has a lot of similarities. I think that this has come a long way from v1, even if it looks fundamentally the same.

This is the best one by far. Definitely submit it, and cross your fingers and wait.